Washer Recommendations

[Oldwolf]

We've had our Samsung front loader for 11 years now. I think the washer is beginning to have a growling water pump, but those are apparently easily replaceable from the rear.

 

[alarmguy]

One thing that I would suggest is decent plug in surge suppressor on your washer. Appliances in homes are now electronic boards, even some Speed Queens that some think are all mechanical.

It certainly cant hurt to put one on. We talk about board failures and in today's world we dont know if that cause was an external event such as a surge or defect in the board. I have a plug in surge on every appliance (refrigerator and freezer too) and device in the home AND also a surge in the circuit breaker box and a waterproof outdoor surge on the HVAC unit.

 

[Rmay635703]

It's not so much the basic appliance as much as the cheap-sheet electical components that they put in them, like switches, contacts, rotarty or push button controls etc. These things are so poorly made because volume production is paramount over quality, that it taints the reputation of nearly all brands these days. Once you get past that, the rest of the appliance is solid generally.

The cheapest pandemic era home depot washer is still working but it has a computerized dial and because it lacks a brake the cover is locked a lot of the time so you can’t sneak in vinegar during the rinse cycle.

It tends to crash and lockup and you go down and find it never ran, restart a cycle with water already in the hopper and it might freeze 10 minutes, had it forget the rinse cycle once.

I like to run in a small amount of hot water at the beginning of the fill to dissolve soap but this thing randomly has a fit if you change temperature and fill size , sometimes have to unplug.


Despite all this my gripe is that all washers seem to be shrinking in size, this one is by no means tiny but the hopper inside is probably half the size of the one my folks had in the 80’s. Makes it easy to overload.

 

[Rust_Belt_Pete]

Size may shrink but what about capacity?

 

[PandaBear]

A model that has the option to add a coin box or card reader for apartment complex public area. Those tends to be better build.

 

[repairman54]

I think Whirlpool coin op TL washer is still the old rugged direct drive design. At least it was 6 yrs. ago before I retired. Photo of one still looks the same. But they are $1400.